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NEW YORK — The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO has added a prominent defense lawyer to his legal team as Manhattan prosecutors work to return him from Pennsylvania to face a murder charge. Luigi Mangione will be represented by Karen Friedman Agnifilo, who was a high-ranking deputy in the Manhattan district attorney’s office for years before entering private practice. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Friedman Agnifilo’s law firm, Agnifilo Intrater LLP, confirmed in a statement late Friday that she had been retained to represent Mangione.

WASHINGTON — Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had hip replacement surgery Saturday at a U. S. military hospital in Germany after falling while at an event in Luxembourg with other members of Congress. Pelosi, 84, “is well on the mend,” said Ian Krager, a spokesman for the California Democrat, in a statement. Pelosi thanked the staff at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center and the hospital in Luxembourg, where she was also treated, for “their excellent care and kindness.” She was in Europe with a bipartisan congressional delegation to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. Pelosi tripped and fell while at an event and fractured her hip, according to people familiar with her injury who were not authorized to publicly discuss the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity. Among those on the trip was Rep.

AQABA, Jordan — U. S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday that American officials have been in direct contact with the Syrian rebel group that spearheaded the overthrow of President Bashar Assad’s government but is designated a foreign terrorist organization by the United States and others. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Blinken is the first U.

Colorado Springs police shot and killed a man overnight who they say brandished a handgun when confronted by officers in a parking lot. Police wrote on social media that a man called the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office dispatchers at 9:40 p.m. Friday and told them he was suicidal and armed with a gun. Deputies alerted other local law enforcement agencies after they arrived at the man’s home and were unable to locate him. Colorado Springs police officers began receiving calls about gunshots near the 3800 block of Astrozon Boulevard at 11 p.m.

A person was killed Friday night in a shooting near East Colfax Avenue and Cherry Street in Denver, according to police. Denver police wrote in a social media post at 10:36 p.m. that they had located one person suffering from unknown injuries and were working to identify a suspect. At 11:24 p.m., they said the victim had died and the shooting was being investigated as a homicide. Denver police did not immediately respond to questions about the incident. Sign up to get crime news sent straight to your inbox each day.